Time passed quickly, and it was mid-September in the blink of an eye. The huge profits from the autumn harvest were later calculated. Because of the first use of fertilizers for planting, and the Kira family's renting oxen to plow the land to improve production efficiency, the Kira family's annual tribute reached 40,000.
Five thousand stones, Zhiling Shigao broke through the 70,000 stone mark for the first time, reaching 75,000 stones. Compared with the original statistics of 55,000 stones, the output increased by 20,000 stones. This has to be said to be a miracle.
The farmers in Shiga and Takashima counties are also celebrating with songs and dances. Now no one doubts what Kira Yoshi said. Anyone who dares to say "no" to the Kira family in these two counties may not be able to walk out safely.
The land of two counties.
The great harvest of the Kira family also heralded the great harvest of Shiga and Takashima counties. Because Omi joined the army, Takashima Nanato officially became an official of the Kira family. Takashima County also tried out the Kira family's new agricultural law, but the local Japanese
The level is still somewhat hesitant, so there are deviations in the implementation of the law and the total income is not as high as expected.
But even so, the overall food income of Takashima County has increased by nearly 20%. This has made those wealthy families who violated the laws of the Kira family regret it. Many farmers complained that the lords did not listen to the orders of the king, so there were some disputes and disputes.
civil lawsuit, taking this opportunity to further consolidate the Kira family's influence over Takashima County.
The villages in Shiga County that were not under the direct control of the Kira family have made huge profits by following Kira Yoshitoki's footsteps. On average, they have increased their stone height by about 30%. Some areas that were originally barren have experienced even greater growth, even more than doubling the amount.
, the news of the great harvest in the Kira family territory spread wildly to Kinki, and the staggering food growth rate also made Kira Yoshitoki an outstanding civil servant.
Although he was very proud, Kira Yoshiki was not satisfied either. This was because farmers in this era still used the simplest farming model and were very unfamiliar with intensive farming. On the contrary, the land was about 991 square meters, and the average grain output was only about one stone.
One stone of grain is equivalent to more than 300 kilograms. This grain output is really pitifully low.
This is his first year of agricultural reform. He will first make preliminary reforms in fertilizers and farming technology, and will gradually promote agricultural planting technology in the future. The average grain output has changed from an average of just over 300 kilograms to 330 kilograms. What kind of growth is this?
? It’s not enough. Don’t forget that during the same period, the grain yield per mu in the Ming Dynasty had already exceeded 300 kilograms. On the contrary, the land was half as much as one acre. As a result, the grain output was not as much as one acre.
This is so embarrassing.
What's more, the Lake Biwa area is also a major grain-producing area, one of the richest areas. The grain output here is still like this, let alone those small places. Tosa country only has 90,000 koku, which is ridiculous. There are no mines in that place.
There were no large-scale castle towns, and the reason for so much mass production was not only because the lords concealed the fact that Ishigao was evading military service, but also because the farmers had poor farming techniques and did not understand farming techniques.
At the same time, there is also good news. The crops planted on the trial have achieved amazing harvests. Potatoes and pumpkins have reached or exceeded the harvest of 8 shi per day. Although the corn is slightly lower, it is not bad, with 7 shi per day.
The yield was quite high. Although it did not meet his prediction, it was still pretty good. What surprised him even more was that the yield of sugar beets reached 12 stones, peppers reached 8 stones, and even alfalfa had a yield of 10 stones. Grapes had just begun to bear fruit and the yield was less.
outer.
This shocking news was immediately blocked, and all the grain was harvested and kept as seeds. The grapes and peppers were directly given to the samurai of the Kira family to share. In the end, they were asked to keep the seeds and recycle them all. Although the samurai were curious about what the followers were playing again.
What a trick, but it doesn't affect Taen's popularity with this sweet and sour fruit. On the contrary, peppers are not used much in cooking because they don't know how to cook this kind of dish.
At present, there is a lack of sugar and wine cannot be brewed. It can only be grown as a seasonal fruit. However, it is unexpected that peppers are left out. Since others don't like to eat them, he keeps them for himself. Fortunately, this kind of peppers are still available.
It's not too spicy, and after drying, it can completely replace mustard as an ingredient in cooking.
In order to promote new planting technology, the shogunate invited Yoshitoki Kira to give lectures in Kyoto. However, Yoshitoki Kira felt that the effect of the lectures was not necessarily good. As the proverb goes, hearing is believing, seeing is believing, so he in turn sent the general
Invited to visit Sakamoto Castle with the ministers of the imperial court, Konoe Haritsugu and Ashikaga Yoshitō saw the rice fields being harvested and the straw being distributed and cleared, so Mitsumasa Ishitani, the minister of the shogunate, asked them what they were doing.
Kira Yoshishi told them that they were harvesting straw. Straw can be used as the raw material for fertilizer. Green manure is made of various straws, branches, and leaves as raw materials and fermented into the fertilizer needed in the soil. Of course, it is only one kind of raw material for fertilizer, and it can also be used as a fertilizer.
Farmers' fire fuel has always been popular.
After visiting the rice fields, they went to Sakamoto's granary and saw a large area of extra-large barns piled up. This moved Sekishiro Konoe Haritsugu and Kimakata Ashikaga Yoshifuji. Each of these barns can be seen at a glance.
It can hold at least tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, which is equivalent to a barn of 500 kilograms in stone height. The Kira family has built more than a hundred such barns, which means that there is at least more than 50,000 kilograms of grain. This is really a hundred stories.
It's better to see it once.
In the evening at the newly built Keneda Imperial Palace, a dinner was held during which there was a Sarugaku performance and a calligraphy performance. Yoshitoki Kira was also invited to accompany them. It turned out that they were holding a Qushui poetry party. First, Konoe Haritsugu sang: "New Wild Geese"
The words are connected in a row, and by the setting sun thousands of miles away in autumn, the shadow of Lu Han reflects on the hibiscus brocade, just like a poem with the same text."
"Excellent! I'll join you in singing a song too!" Kuga Qingtong touched his palms and exclaimed: "The leaves are gradually turning yellow in the shade of the autumn trees, and the horses are groaning when they stop pulling. The dawn comes and the dew disappears like frost, and the sunset outside the crows fills the forest with red!"
"Then it's time to spare!" Ashikaga Yoshitō thought for a while and then said: "All the wise men gathered at the head of the river, went to the meandering water to pick chrysanthemums, and went to the great chun in the flower garden, where eight thousand autumns are placed on a branch!"
Then one poem after another was written, and everyone's eyes turned to him. Kira Yoshitsune was thinking about it from the moment he entered the room. Hearing Hosokawa Fujitaka's low voice urging him, he sang helplessly: "Who can say that he thinks thousands of miles away?
The rain chants the salute, and the sound of dripping wakes up the dream of the passenger ship, no less than the midnight bell of Hanshan Mountain!"
"What a poetic talent!" All the ministers praised Ji Liangyi for his literary and military skills. They couldn't avoid saying that he was young and rich, and the envy in their words was very clear. They obviously took a fancy to this young man's wealth and wealth.
Fame.
Seeing that it was already late, Hosokawa Fujitaka said: "Then I will compose a poem as the end of the poetry meeting... The sound of the white crane can be heard for nine days. It is a good time to wish you safety, the ten states and three islands are in your hands, and the thousand-year-old immortal bird is here.
In front of the emperor!"
There were also constant singing and dancing performances invited from the imperial court, and of course there were also a lot of anecdotes and strange things during the interspersed period. The ministers were all a group of very interesting people, and it was very appropriate to compliment them. The dinner did not end until ten minutes past midnight.
go.
Ashikaga Yoshito took Kira Yoshitoki to sit down in Kirima in the palace and invited him to sleep on the same bed. Although he knew that this was a way to show the close relationship between the two, he still felt goosebumps coming out and could not be honest.
He had to accept Fang's kind punches. Fortunately, he was not gay yet, so he spent the restless night safely.
The next day, Kira Yoshi, who had dark circles under his eyes, had to face questions from Ashikaga Yoshito again, such as whether the shogunate's imperial palace could be implemented, how to implement it, what the management methods were, and how to appease the local people and farmers.
As soon as he explained, Ashikaga Yoshito was envious of his strong control over his retainers. It was a pity that both the ministers of the shogunate and the high-ranking clan had their own territories. The imperial palace below only collected grain supplies, and everyone else enjoyed it.
Not so, so he could only drool looking at the more than one hundred barns of Kiragi.
While busy, I heard the news that Nagao Kagetora's team arriving at Wakasa Bay arrived at Wakasa Bay. The last time I contacted him was more than half a year ago. At that time, Nagao Kagetora wrote a letter telling him that he planned to go to Luo. He didn't pay much attention to it because he was the first person in history.
It seems that the first time he goes to Luo is next year. How can he go to Luo without completing the first battle of Kawanakajima?
However, he actually completed his first battle on Kawanakajima this year, but at that time he was busy fighting the Katsuragi River battle with the Miyoshi family, and had no time to pay attention to a less fierce battle in Shinano country, and then he was busy
Even though he is busy, he still has no time to relax. In contrast, Yamamoto Kansuke is busy all day long, just to deal with the pensions of the soldiers who died in the battle, as well as to re-recruit soldiers for their injuries and recuperation.
But soldiers are so easy to find. The total population of the entire Omi Kingdom is only more than 500,000. Shiga and Takashima counties are relatively densely populated because they are adjacent to Gyeonggi. Their combined population is only 70,000 or 80,000. Although in recent years,
The reconstruction of Sakamoto Castle and the extensive expansion of the castle town attracted many floating people to settle there, and the population of the two armies was raised to 180,000, one-fifth of which were town residents. This level of urbanization was already exaggerated.
The newborn population is huge, and it has grown rapidly in the past two years. Hundreds of newborns are born almost every month, especially in the first half of this year because the widows of Omi Ashigaru who died in the war gave birth to many children. In the first half of the year,
The number of new births in the two counties increased by more than 5,000, but this is not enough.
High-quality soldiers need men of appropriate age. In this era, only men between the ages of fifteen and forty-five are eligible to join the army. The Kira family's military service requirements are even stricter. Those over forty years old are not required to bear military service for any reason.
, those who are disabled are no longer required to bear military service, and those who have only one child in the family, no brothers, no wives and children, are not allowed to bear military service.
Coupled with the number of men of suitable age who died in these wars, the number of people who can be recruited is already very small, and with the reform of agricultural technology, the demand for population in rural areas is also gradually increasing, so although the Kira family has given a good
benefits, but there are still gaps in local recruitment.
Although Mikawa's losses were not large, it was more difficult to replenish Mikawa Country because the population of Mikawa Country was smaller and supplies were more difficult. Fortunately, the Kira family and the Imagawa family reached a marriage alliance offer. The Kira family's recruitment operation for Mikawa Country, the Imagawa family
It also opened the door to convenience. All the people of the Mikawa Kingdom went to Kyoto to serve the government, and the resistance of Mikawa itself became weaker, so Imagawa Yoshimoto was very happy for him to recruit troops.
Fortunately, the Kira family is not only recruiting troops from two counties, including Asai County and Ixiang County in the north of Omi, Ritai County in the south Omi, and Noshu County are also within the scope of this recruitment. These four counties are recruiting troops for the Kira family.
He was very satisfied with the treatment and admired the prestige of the Kira family, so the gap in Omi Shibi was quickly filled. However, the quality of these recruits was worrying, and it was difficult to form effective combat effectiveness in a short period of time.
Most of these newly recruited people are bankrupt or landless refugees, and there are also some criminals or wandering samurai who have made mistakes in their master's family. The quality of the soldiers is even worse. According to Yamamoto Tokiyuki's suggestion, they simply
Just throw them into the Tongxin community and train them so that they can maintain public order and defend the city.
His large-scale recruitment of troops naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of the Rokkaku clan and the Asai clan, but they could not stop them. The Kira family offered such good treatment, but the low-level samurai under these two families were already tempted, so these two families could only condemn them.
The Kira family is busy extinguishing the little sparks in their home.
Of course Kira Yoshitoki will not care about their condemnation. He has just won a great victory for the shogunate. Now his will represents the shogunate to a certain extent. As long as he does not do anything perverse, no one will criticize him. Besides, the Kira family has no
They went to their prefectures and counties to recruit people. These people took the initiative to seek refuge with the Kira family. Even if the lawsuit went to the shogunate, it could not be said that the Kira family was at fault. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!